Li Chen, Lang Jiayan, Wang Yazhou, Cheng Zhaoxia, Zu Mali, Li Fenfen, Sun Jingyi, Deng Yating, Ji Tianjiao, Nie Guangjun, Zhao Ying
CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials & Nanosafety, CAS Center of Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China.
Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Acta Pharm Sin B. 2023 Sep;13(9):3849-3861. doi: 10.1016/j.apsb.2023.03.024. Epub 2023 Mar 31.
As a representative chemotherapeutic drug, docetaxel (DTX) has been used for breast cancer treatment for decades. However, the poor solubility of DTX limits its efficacy, and the DTX based therapy increases the metastasis risk due to the upregulation of C-X-C chemokine receptor type 4 (CXCR4) expression during the treatment. Herein, we conjugated CXCR4 antagonist peptide (CTCE) with DTX (termed CTCE-DTX) as an anti-metastasis agent to treat breast cancer. CTCE-DTX could self-assemble to nanoparticles, targeting CXCR4-upregulated metastatic tumor cells and enhancing the DTX efficacy. Thus, the CTCE-DTX NPs achieved promising efficacy on inhibiting both bone-specific metastasis and lung metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer. Our work provided a rational strategy on designing peptide-drug conjugates with synergistic anti-tumor efficacy.
作为一种具有代表性的化疗药物,多西他赛(DTX)已用于乳腺癌治疗数十年。然而,DTX的低溶解度限制了其疗效,并且基于DTX的治疗由于治疗期间C-X-C趋化因子受体4(CXCR4)表达上调而增加了转移风险。在此,我们将CXCR4拮抗剂肽(CTCE)与DTX偶联(称为CTCE-DTX)作为一种抗转移剂来治疗乳腺癌。CTCE-DTX可以自组装成纳米颗粒,靶向CXCR4上调的转移性肿瘤细胞并增强DTX的疗效。因此,CTCE-DTX纳米颗粒在抑制三阴性乳腺癌的骨特异性转移和肺转移方面取得了有前景的疗效。我们的工作为设计具有协同抗肿瘤疗效的肽-药物偶联物提供了合理策略。